Anti-war Coalition And Earthlife Africa Calls For Mass Protest Against US Warship

southern africa | imperialism / war | non-anarchist press Thursday October 02, 2008 22:04 by Anti-War Coalition - EarthLife Africa capetownantiwar at gmail dot com

The AntiWar Coalition and Earthlife Africa calls for mass protest
against the presence of the US Weapons of mass destruction (USS
Theodore Roosevelt) that has been invited by the SA government to dock
in Table bay harbour. There has been a deliberate mis-information
campaign by the authorities to destabilize demonstrations against the
warship by releasing of different dates of arrival. The NNR puts the
date at Friday 3rd October, while the Navy puts it at Sat 4th October,
the SABC reports that the ship will only dock on Monday 6th October.

We are calling for a mass demonstration against the warship for Sat
4th October at 10am at the Cape Town harbour. Protestors are
encouraged to bring their own slogans and posters. Should we receive
news of an earlier arrival we will send out a further notice.

It should be remembered that the mass killing of innocent people in
Afghanistan and Iraq was carried out by the pilots and soldiers on
this ship. Although there are many atrocities that were carried out by
this band of thugs, one that comes to mind was the bombing of a
wedding celebration in Afghanistan, launched from this ship. For mass
murder in Afghanistan this ship and its crew were awarded medals by
the US government.

We call for Cosatu and its transport and military affiliates to block
any servicing or provisioning of this ship.

We call for the working class to confront any crew from this ship
should they attempt to land.

We condemn the SA government for honouring and giving legitimacy to
this group of armed imperialist bandits. How ironic that this
government is paving the way for an armed assault on the people of
Iran and the working class across the globe, the minister of defence
also being a member of the SACP. The silence of the SACP on this
matter shows that the real role of the SACP is to be the policemen for
world imperialism.

for further comment

Anti-War Coalition
Shaheed Mahomed ph 0822020617

Earthlife Africa
Keenan van Wyk ph 0763870620